dwelling in possibility

lookhigh:

This is what happens when you stack hundreds of photos of the same sky on top of each other. (via SciencePorn - pic.twitter.com/vzRYZsf8fG)

 

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doctorwho:

Doctor Puppet - The Red X (by Nerdist)

The Doctor Puppet, based on Doctor Who, finds a strange note on his TARDIS that leads him on a mysterious adventure. Who will he meet along the way?

The Doctor Puppet is a lovingly handcrafted fan tribute made in New York City.
What classic Dr. Who characters do you want to see as puppets?
What times and places should the Doctor Puppet visit in his TARDIS? 

Watch Part 2 on http://www.youtube.com/HelloDoctorPuppet and Subscribe for more episodes!

victorianfanguide:

Six dolls which belonged to Princess Victoria. As a young girl Victoria collected over 130 small wooden dolls. She made the clothes for each doll herself, with a little help from her governess Baroness Lehzen, and modelled them on famous society figures and her favourite theatre performers. She also kept a notebook which recorded the name of each doll and who had helped to dress it.

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differentiatingbetweenreality:

“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.” ~Charles Dickens, “A Tale of Two Cities”

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Just consider how much we miss each day….

wnycradiolab:

Christopher Jonassen

Devour, 2013

At first glance, these objects may look like planets, but they are actually photos of the bottoms of frying pans.

The bottoms of frying pans, folks.

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fuckyeah-nerdery:

sigfodr:

A version for tumblr that can be read without opening a new tab, since plenty of people would scroll past this story otherwise.

The bravest woman on Earth.

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One Shade of Grey & Feminist Utopia Fantasy Story

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wnycradiolab:

explore-blog:

Kurt Vonnegut’s classic lecture on the shapes of stories, now in an infographic. 

We talk about these Vonnegut graphs all the time at Radiolab, but we usually just scribble them on a coffee-stained napkin.  This is much nicer.

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ilovecharts:

My complete bastardization of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs in the name of conscious consumerism.

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A linoleum print by Flannery O’Connor, from her days as a college journalist. You can read more about these cartoons here. 

thevictorianlady:

Julia Margaret Cameron’s photographs illustrating Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s Idylls of the King, Part 3. 

Alfred Tennyson asked his close friend Julia Margaret Cameron to illustrate The Idylls of the King, leading Cameron to produce more than 200 images. For the initial publication of the poem in 1859, the publisher chose to include only 2 of the photographs. With Tennyson’s encouragement, in 1875 Cameron published a two volume book that included 25 of the photographs, including two portraits of Tennyson, alongside a facsimile of the corresponding verses handwritten by Cameron. 

These are all the photographs from Cameron’s 1875 edition, ordered in the way that Cameron arranged them for publication. The portraits of Tennyson indicate the beginning of a volume.

For the complete set, also see…

Part 1

Part 2

Possibly the strangest fusion of nerd-loves I have ever seen. 

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todaysdocument:

The 19th Amendment for Women’s Suffrage on Display March 1 - 8:

In honor of the 100th anniversary of the 1913 Woman’s Suffrage Parade in Washington, DC, the 19th Amendment will be on display from March 1 to March 8 at the National Archives Building.

The 19th Amendment guarantees American women the right to vote. Achieving this milestone required a lengthy and difficult struggle; victory took decades of agitation. Beginning in the mid-19th century, woman suffrage supporters lectured, wrote, marched, lobbied, and practiced civil disobedience to achieve what many Americans considered radical change…  

Keep reading at: Prologue: Pieces of History » The 19th Amendment on display at the National Archives

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